SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The fall reading period is open! SIR pays contributing authors at two rates: $125 (five layout pages or fewer accepted for publication) and $250 (six layout pages or more accepted). southernindianareview.submittable.com/submit 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The final spring 2026 SIR Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “White Bath” by Phillip B. Williams: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Today's spring 2026 SIR Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Zahzuah” by Edward Salem: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The next spring 2026 SIR Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “The Desertion Bureau / White Noise” by Erika Meitner: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... 010
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Today's spring 2026 SIR Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “It’s a Question of Taste” by Thea Matthews: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... 001
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The next spring 2026 SIR Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Reasons Not to Go” by Arah Ko: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... 010
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Today's spring 2026 SIR Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Self-Portrait While Meditating on the Nature of Existence” by David Hernandez: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The next spring 2026 SIR Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Mary Sonnets” by Marianne Chan: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Today's spring 2026 SIR Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “The Lonely Poems” by Sébastien Luc Butler: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The first spring 2026 SIR Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “An Ode to the Demise of the Wake” by A.H. Jerriod Avant: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... 010
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 02/07/2026SIR spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 35: Phillip B. Williams Phillip B. Williams is author of Thief in the Interior, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and Mutiny, which won a 2022 American Book Award. www.phillipbwilliams.com Instagram: @phillipbw_author 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 01/07/2026SIR spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 34: Jeff Whitney Jeff Whitney’s most recent chapbook is Sixteen Stories. His poems can be found in Alaska Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, and Sixth Finch. www.jeffwhitneypoetry.com 010
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 30/06/2026SIR spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 33: Jim Whiteside Jim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook, Writing Your Name on the Glass. His poems appear in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. www.jimwhitesidepoetry.com 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 29/06/2026SIR spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 32: G.C. Waldrep G.C. Waldrep is the author of The Opening Ritual, one of the New York Times‘s five best poetry collections of 2024. His work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Paris Review, APR, New England Review, Harper’s and Tin House. gcwaldrep.com 020
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 27/06/2026SIR spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 31: Ryan Teitman Ryan Teitman is the author of the poetry collections Litany for the City and Paperweight. His poems appear in Gulf Coast, POETRY, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review. ryanteitman.com Instagram: @ryanteitman 010
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 26/06/2026SIR spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 30: Danielle Shorr Winner of the Touchstone Literary Magazine Debut Prize in Nonfiction, Danielle Shorr's work has appeared in Electric Literature, The Florida Review, and The New Orleans Review. danielleshorr.com Instagram: @danielleshorr 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 29: Liz Schroeder Liz Schroeder is a fiction writer from the American Midwest. Her work has previously appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and New Letters. 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 24/06/2026SIR spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 28: Edward Sambrano III Edward Sambrano III is a Latinx poet, critic, and educator from San Antonio. They have writing in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Pleiades. edwardsambranoiii.com @sambranopoet.bsky.social 041
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 23/06/2026SIR spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 27: Edward Salem Edward Salem is the author of Intifadas (Sarabande, 2026), selected by Hanif Abdurraqib as the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, and Monk Fruit (Nightboat, 2025), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize. www.edwardsalem.com 010
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 22/06/2026SIR spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 26: Allan Peterson Poet and visual artist Allan Peterson’s most recent book is Amid This. His fourth book, Fragile Acts, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Peterson lives and writes in Ashland, Oregon. allanpetersonpoetry.com 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 25: Erika Meitner Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Ideal Cities, Holy Moly Carry Me, and Useful Junk. Assembled Audience is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. erikameitner.com Instagram: @rika99 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 24: Thea Matthews Thea Matthews is the author of GRIME and Unearth [The Flowers]. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, ZYZZYVA, and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. www.theamatthews.com Instagram: @theamatthews_ 010
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 23: Seth Leeper Seth Leeper is a queer poet. His work appears in The Adroit Journal, Foglifter, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, and The Greensboro Review. www.sethleeper.com Instagram: @sethwleeper 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 22: Arah Ko Arah Ko is a writer from Hawai'i and PhD student in creative writing at the Univ of Cincinnati. She is author of a poetry collection, Brine Orchid, and a chapbook, Animal Logic. www.arahko.com Instagram: @white_fox_girl 100
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 21: Parul Kaushik Parul Kaushik is a practicing physician living in Dallas, where she hosts a radio show while pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the Univ of North Texas. facebook.com/parul.kaushik.524 Instagram: @princessparo27 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 20: Anna Journey Anna Journey’s most recent poetry collection is Wolf Cut: New & Selected Poems. Her poems appear in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, POETRY, and The Southern Review. annajourney.com Instagram: @ajourneypoet 010
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 19: Brynne Jones Brynne Jones is a writer from Tennessee. Her fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review and The Missouri Review Online. She holds an MFA in fiction and screenwriting from the Michener Center for Writers. brynnejones.com 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 18: Vedran Husić Vedran Husić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and raised in Germany and the United States. His collection of stories, Basements and Other Museums, was published by Black Lawrence Press. vedranhusic.squarespace.com 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 17: David Hernandez David Hernandez’s most recent collection of poems, Hello I Must Be Going, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. www.davidahernandez.com 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 16: Edward Hardy Edward Hardy is the author of two novels, Keeper and Kid and Geyser Life, and the forthcoming story collection A Building of Worry on My Chest. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, GQ, and The New England Review. 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 15: Deanna Lee Hardy Spring 2026 cover artist Deanna Lee Hardy is a photographer working across editorial, commercial, and conceptual styles. Instagram: @deanna.lee.photography 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 14: Vernita Hall Vernita Hall is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and Marsh Hawk Press Robert Creeley Prize. www.vernitahall.com 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 12 + 1: Seth Gleckman Seth Gleckman teaches high school English in Sonoma County, California. His fiction has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, and The Penn Review. 020
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 12: Matthew Gellman Matthew Gellman’s first book, Beforelight, won BOA Editions, Ltd.’s 2023 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His second book, The Understudy, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2027. Instagram: @_flungoutofspace_ 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 11: John Gallaher John Gallaher’s most recent book is My Life in Brutalist Architecture, a poem-memoir on adoption. His eighth collection, Radio Good Luck, will be out in 2028 from Four Way Books. Gallaher co-edits the Laurel Review. 020
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 10: Jordan Escobar Jordan Escobar is from Bakersfield, CA, and the author of Men with the Throats of Birds. His poetry appears in Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, and Prairie Schooner. jordanescobarpoetry.com jescobarpoet.bsky.social 001
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 01/06/2026We have a winner! Southern Indiana Review is pleased to announce that Carl Phillips has selected New Stranger by Jenna Johnson for the 2026 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. 010
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 9: Allison Pitinii Davis Allison Pitinii Davis is author of Line Study of a Motel Clerk and Poppy Seeds, winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize. @apitiniidavis.bsky.social Instagram: @allisonpitiniidavis www.allisondavispoetry.com 020
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 8: Michael Czyzniejewski Michael Czyzniejewski is the author of four collections of stories, most recently The Amnesiac in the Maze. He serves as editor-in-chief of Moon City Press and Moon City Review. 111
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 7: Christopher Lee Chilton Christopher Lee Chilton lives and teaches in New York. His work has appeared in The Penn Review, South Carolina Review, and Oyster River Pages. www.christopherleechilton.com @grnpointer.bsky.social 011
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 6: Marianne Chan Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is author of All Heathens, winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award, and Leaving Biddle City. www.mariannechan.com Instagram: @mariannelchan 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 5: Stacie Cassarino Stacie Cassarino’s Each Luminous Thing won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award. Zero at the Bone received a Lambda Award and the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award. www.staciecassarino.com Instagram: @scassla 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 4: Sébastien Luc Butler Sébastien Luc Butler was born and raised in Michigan. He is the author of Sky Tongued Back with Light and Viscera. Butler lives in New York City. sebastienlucbutler.squarespace.com Instagram: @sebastbu 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 3: Adrienne Brock Adrienne Brock’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, West Branch, and Washington Square Review. She lives in Cork, Ireland. 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 2: A.H. Jerriod Avant A.H. Jerriod Avant was born and raised in Longtown, Mississippi. His first book, Muscadine, received the 2024 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in poetry. Instagram: @ahjerriodvant 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Southern Indiana Review spring 2026 Contributors Salute, Day 1: Genevieve Abravanel Genevieve Abravanel’s short fiction is available or forthcoming in American Short Fiction, The Missouri Review, Story, Chicago Quarterly, Ecotone, and elsewhere. 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Today is the day! SIR pays contributing authors at two rates: $125 (five layout pages or fewer accepted for publication) and $250 (six layout pages or more accepted). Currently enrolled graduate students receive a 50% discount on submission fees. southernindianareview.submittable.com/submit 010
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Happy The Red We Silk Pub Day! lsupress.org/978193050861... To celebrate, checkout Tryphena Yeboah's interview with Nicole! www.usi.edu/sir/sir-pres...lsupress.orgThe Red We SilkThe Red We Silk collects inherited migrations and the weight of familial journeys into a lyric investigation of displacement and longing. Memory abides in th... 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Nicole Lachat's The Red We Silk, winner of the 2024 Michael Waters Poetry Prize, in the LitHub spotlight! lithub.com/the-thing-we...lithub.com“The Thing We Know How to Do for One Another.” Seven Poetry Books to Read This February“What are we doing? . . . No, I mean—what does poetry do?” That’s D__ speaking. He’s a poet, though you might not know it from the title of the novel he’s narrating: The Copywriter, out this month,… 000
SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 16/02/2026One week to go! lsupress.org/978193050861... “Reader, this is no ordinary debut. Nicole Lachat knows that all borders are lies. Citizen and immigrant. Land and body. Parent and child....Whatever lines you believe in, whatever lines you draw, prepare to have them dissolved.” –Rebecca Gayle Howell 000
